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o'rro r. voe'r, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT, or COLUMBIA.

EDUCATIONAL APiPLI'ANCE.

Application filed. March 17, 1923. Serial No. 625,826.

Beit known that Orro F. of the United-States, residing at Washington, Ce, has invented certain new and usefulv Improvements in Educational Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates broadly, to improve ments in educational. appliances andespecially to an appliance for the introductionv of novices and students in signal code reception; i V

lVIore particularly my invention relates to means adapted'to produce: a sound or: combination of sounds, when operated'byithe;

student, which represent the various sound characters ofasignal code, such as the Morse international, whereby totrain the ear of the student'to the correct sound of the charactors used in telegraphic communication.

The primary .objectof my invention is to provide a portable appliance of this character which may be operated at will by the student, without the use of attachments,

such as battery circuits, buzzers, etc., and which is capable of producing the correct sound'characters of the signal code. r

A further object of my invention is to provide a device for training the ear of students in signal code reception, having visible characters, such as letters of the alphabet, numerals, etc., and irregular portions adjacent each visible character, adapted,

when operated byrthe student, to produce an audible character to correspond to the visible character. f

A still further object of my invention is to produce an educational device of this,

character which will be simple and inert pensive in construction and positive and reliable inoperation, allias will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters 1ndicate similar parts:

Figure 1 isa plan view of my improved educational appliance, showing therelation of the visible characters to the grooves in which the corresponding audible signals are produced, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross section taken on line 2-2 of Fig, 1, showing the formation of one of the grooves.

In the drawings, the portions indicated as Voc'r, a citizen L represent a ,tablet' or table, which'maylbe formedofany approved material having the alphabet, and numerals from lato 10, but;

it willbe' understood that other visible Icharacters, commonly used in telegraphic com-' n unication, maybe substituted without de parting from the spiritofmy invention. Ar ranged adjacent'to each of the'vi'sible charac ters 8 is an enlarged entrance a to a grooveQ. The entrances 4: .to'the. grooves 2 are preferablydi'aredoutwardly toward the visible charactersB, toassist the student in directing a stylus into the entrance. to a I selected other end'of the grooves 2 to prevent the stylus from leaving a selected groove 2- after, its pointed end has traversed the lower sure" face thereof. The advantages of theflare'd entrances 4,; and stops 6, to the groove 2-, will be apparent from the description of operation explained hereafter. By zreferen'ce .to'Fig. 1 and particularly to the enlarged cross section in Fig; 2, it will be noted that the bottom o f'the grooves 2' is roughened at intervals to represent dots codes. These 'roughened portions 7 and 8' are preferably'formed by corrugatingthe bottomof thegroovesQat intervals, the corrugated portions :8" being three times as long asthe correspondingly formed por-' dons-7, the smooth spaces-9, betweenrthe corrugated portion, being of the same length;

as the roughened portion 7. i

. w r 1 groove 2. Stopsfijare likewise forrned atthe I7 and dashes- S',:the components of signal ioo In operation the student ,places the tab-, let 1 face upward upon any hard surface andv with a stylus 5, which may beianythard,

t, stance, the common writing pen, selects a; character 3 from the vertical row which is sharp pointedinstrument, such" asfor invisibly'displayed near one edge of the tab let 1. He then moves the stylus 5 into" the I flared entrance 41, which directs the point'of 7 end.

the stylus into the entrance to the groove 2, adjacent the selected visible character 3, and continues to move the stylus 5 rapidly through the groove 2 until its point strikes the stop 6, at the far end of the groove. It will be seen that during this operation the point of the stylus 5 is caused to traverse the roughened portions 7 and 8 and the intermediate smooth portions 9, in the groove 2, in rapid succession producing a combination of short and long sounds, which is the audible code signal corresponding to the visible character selected.

By means of my invention, the ear of the student is trained to recognize certain combinations of short and long sounds as representing the characters of the signal code which is visibly displayed on the face of the tablet, rather than, for instance, that A is dot, dash; B dash, three dots, etc., etc.

In telegraphic communication and particularly in wireless telegraphy, the student must learn to receive the signal char; acters in combinations of short and long b'uzzes, rather than dots and dashes. a It is particularly important therefore that the ear of the student be trained to quickly distinguish between the dots and dashes when received in this manner and my invention is particularly designed to accomplish this Although I haveshown and described a preferred construction for accomplishing the objects heretofore enumerated, it will be understood that various modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention, as defined in thefollowing claims.

What I claim is:

1. An educational appliance comprising, in combination with a stylus, a member so equipped as to co-operate with the stylus in the audible production of a character of a signal code, when the stylus is caused to traverse 'said'ymember in a substantially straight path, substantially as described.

2. An educational appliance comprising,@

in combinationwith a stylus, a tablet formed with visible characters and irregular porformed with visible characters and a groove ad acent each of said visible characters each groove having distinctive groups of irregularities'adapted to produce audible cha'racters corresponding to said visible characters. when traversed by said stylus.

i. 'An article of manufacture comprising a tablet formed with a series of unrelated grooves each having disconnected ter mi e nals and each of said grooves being formed with: diii'erent irregularities, whereby au' dible signals of different characters willbe produced by the movement of a stylus through said grooves; I

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature;

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